CVE-2010-4666 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libarchive

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer8 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 37.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LibarchiveDebian LibarchiveFreebsd Libarchive
Timeline
PublishedApr 13
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Buffer overflow in libarchive 3.0 pre-release code allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CAB file, which is not properly handled during the reading of Huffman code data within LZX compressed data.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/libarchive< libarchive 3.0.4-2 (bookworm)
▶Debianlibarchive/libarchive< 3.0.4-2+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-grv9-pvr2-fc6r: Buffer overflow in libarchive 3↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2010-4666: Buffer overflow in libarchive 3↗2012-04-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
Libarchive multiple security issues↗2010-12-30
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Debian
CVE-2010-4666: libarchive - Buffer overflow in libarchive 3.0 pre-release code allows remote attackers to ca...↗2010
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-4666 CVE-2011-1777 CVE-2011-1778 CVE-2011-1779 Libarchive multiple security issues [epel-5]↗2012-01-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2010-4666 CVE-2011-1777 CVE-2011-1778 CVE-2011-1779 Libarchive multiple security issues [fedora-all]↗2011-05-18
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Bugzilla
CVE-2010-4666 CVE-2011-1777 CVE-2011-1778 CVE-2011-1779 Libarchive multiple security issues↗2011-05-18
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